Time passing - daylight and seasons - compass rose

[Tiamo]

The shape of the Cantr-world obviously is not a globe, so anything that has to do with astronomy (and weather, seasons, tides, horizons, gravity, ...) must be different from rl.

[Faith]

It's not a globe? Wel...It's round and...I'm going to shut up before break some law xD

[Henkie]

I always take a Nero-view... The sun revolves around my char and the cantrian world it is in
0:00:00-1:35:59 = Morning
2:00:00-3:35:59 = Afternoon
4:00:00-5:35:59 = Evening
6:00:00-7:35:59 = Night

[freiana]

It's not a globe? Wel...It's round and...I'm going to shut up before break some law xD

Isn't it sort of like a cilinder? I have no idea what happens when you keep sailing North... Does it go on forever?

[Henkie]

I think it's donut-shaped *he nods matter-of-factly*

[guilletierno]

It's not a globe? Wel...It's round and...I'm going to shut up before break some law xD

Isn't it sort of like a cilinder? I have no idea what happens when you keep sailing North... Does it go on forever?

map is warped east-west and north-south. you can travel to north and do a "world round", coming from the south. cantr world is like a donut.

[freiana]

0.0 So... on some places, if you look up, you will see another part of the world?!?

[guilletierno]

0.0 So... on some places, if you look up, you will see another part of the world?!?

but if you reach that point you'll be too busy dealing with a kraken

[Faith]

There were some spanish cartographers in cantr that studied what happens if you sail always in the same direction.

[Alladinsane]

I sometimes rp non-detrimental weather...stars etc. In a very tropical and sea borne area my char and his wife liked to observe the sunset/rise from a mountaintop with a level of stratus clouds below the height of the mountain-top giving an illusion the the peak was a solitary island above a foamy white sea. It was their island, maybe the only place in the world with people at all. It seemed romantic at the time and later events made it more so imo.

One of the things I was always taught about good writing was to create the environment and then place your characters within it... I am not saying that I am good at following that advice often enough, but small things like the rainbow, gust of wind and rain fall did add a few interesting elements to the rp. With so many talented writers in this community, I am surprised when sometimes its purely dialogue or brief emotes added. Granted, the pot is calling the kettle 'made of stone' here.

I have heard the donut analogy also and think its conceptually accurate. So to answer Friena's question about whether you would be able to see land if you look up, I would say that only if you were holding a telescope; and also if there are no layers of stratus above you.

Be well

[Tiamo]

I think it's donut-shaped *he nods matter-of-factly*

Topologically it is, but characters will probably experience it as totally flat, 2-dimensional and limited in size (we experience our universe as endless in 3D).

[Doug R.]

0.0 So... on some places, if you look up, you will see another part of the world?!?

Cantr's shape can't exist in the real world unless you fold the world in half before connecting the ends. Otherwise, the inner ring would over-lap itself, and you'd have to horribly stretch the surface area to fit. It has to be a toilet paper tube.



And yes, that is an actual world map of Cantr. Just pretend it's round.

To answer your question, yes, you could look up and see another part of the world, unless it's so far away that it's obscured by atmosphere. So, clearly Cantr is, in reality, a 2D, one sided magic looping square.

[Nalaris]

[Rugila]

If sail to east enough, can i see over the edge of the world?

[guilletierno]

If sail to east enough, can i see over the edge of the world?

no, you can't
cantr map is like the old asteroids game.

http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_%28video_game%29